Subject: Re: CDRW on NetBSD/sparc
To: None <Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk>
From: None <dp@recycled.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/23/2001 09:58:22
It'll work just fine.

Not only that, the Plextor CDRW is most certainly bootable! All Plextors
have a jumper on the back to change the block size from 2048 to 512; set it
to 512 and it'll quite happily boot a Sun.

Dan


Quoting Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk:

> Hi,
> 
> Some nice person just gave me a 8x plextor SCSI
> CDRW ;))
> 
> Anyone know if you can just stick one of these in
> a Sun 411 case (after I remove the QIC-150 ;D),
> plug it in your sparc running 1.5 and it'll
> work with cdrecord???  I'd be running in addition
> to a Sun Unipack CD on the same chain as the CDRW
> isnt bootable AFAIK.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Chris.
> 
>